2015–2016 SeaSon Preview - New Mexico Women in the Arts

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Welcome
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As we approach our 30th year, we embrace the idea that the National Museum of
Women in the Arts can be a valuable public forum for talking about issues and ideas,
reflecting our commitment to champion women through the arts. Because we are a
cause-driven museum, the new Women, Arts, and Social Change initiative builds upon
our mission of advocacy, bringing people together for face-to-face conversations that
are relevant to diverse audiences today.
FRESH TALK, the signature program of Women, Arts, and Social Change, poses
the question, Can we change it? Artists, architects, authors, curators, designers,
filmmakers, musicians, playwrights, and scholars convene with citizen advocates,
business leaders, philanthropists, policy makers, scientists, and social entrepreneurs
for creative conversations on conflict resolution, equity, education, the environment,
health, race, and more. After each program, attendees are invited to social gatherings
such as Sunday Supper, served family-style, and Catalyst, a cocktail hour with a topic
and a twist.
Women, Arts, and Social Change also features CULTURAL CAPITAL sessions, a
platform for building community connections through collaborations with area
organizations. This season, the museum presents programs in partnership with the
Women’s Voices Theater Festival, the Environmental Film Festival, the Washington
National Opera, the Middle East Institute, Capital Fringe Festival, and the March on
Washington Film Festival, among others.
Located in the heart of Washington, D.C., home to think tanks, NGOs, and policy-making
institutions, NMWA is the ideal place to present this steady drumbeat of socially relevant
programming championing women and the arts as catalysts of change.
Can we change it? Join us and together we’ll see where the conversations take us,
Susan Fisher Sterling
Thank you
We are immensely grateful to the visionary donors whose leadership gifts have
made this significant new initiative a reality: Lorna Meyer Calas and Dennis Calas,
the MLDauray Arts Initiative, Denise Littlefield Sobel, and the Swartz Foundation.
Special thanks also go to RBC Wealth Management, presenting sponsors of FRESH
TALK: Carrie Mae Weems and to Deborah G. Carstens, Stephanie Sale, and Dee Ann
McIntyre for their support of the new initiative.
Can we
change it?
FRESH TALK, the signature program of Women, Arts, and Social Change launches
on October 18 with art-world professionals and gender activists discussing the state
of women in the arts today—addressing the museum’s core advocacy mission. On
November 15, Carrie Mae Weems, who had her first major solo show at NMWA in 1993,
takes the stage to talk about an artist’s social responsibility.
January kicks off a year of FRESH TALK programs under the theme of “Change
by Design” featuring conversations on genderless design, art and environmental
remediation, bicycles as agents of change, women pioneers in the film industry,
architects as community builders, and fashion as a visual manifesto.
Get Fresh!
Add your voice to the conversation during Sunday Supper and Catalyst. These
social experiments in conversation-building extend the program dialogue to create
community and great ideas during dinner or over cocktails.
Can’t make it to NMWA? Programs will be live-streamed and recorded for online
access shortly after each presentation at www.nmwa.org/freshtalk4change.
Audiences are invited to add their voices via social media using #FreshTalk4Change.
R ighting the Ba l a nc e
Can there be gender parity
in the art world?
Sunday, October 18, 2015, 3–6 p.m.
Sunday Supper, 6–8 p.m.
Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Patricia Arquette, and Emma Watson are just a few of the
celebrities who have been talking about gender-based social justice in a highly
public way. On a daily basis, it’s the subject of Facebook feeds, tweets, online news
postings, and blogs. Major summits empowering women are being convened, TED
Talks given and books written. What does this evolving conversation mean for
women in the arts who have been fighting the good fight for years and making little
headway? How can we enlist new audiences as advocates for women in the arts?
Righting the Balance considers the inequality that persists for women artists
today and explores new pathways in the quest for gender equity.
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P A L M I E R I : P H O T O C O U R T E S Y S O T H E B Y ’ S ; M A U R A R E I L LY: P H O T O B Y A N D R E W W AT S O N ; M I C O L H E B R O N : P H O T O B Y S A F I A L I A
S H A B A I K ; G U E R R I L L A G I R L A L M A T H O M A S W I T H D E V O N J O N E S , A Y O U N G F E M I N I S T, 2 0 0 9, P H O T O B Y A N N E T T E O . J O N E S ,
C O U R T E S Y A L M A T H O M A S ; G H A D A A M E R : P H O T O B Y B R I A N B U C K L E Y, C O U R T E S Y C H E I M & R E A D , N E W Y O R K ; S I M O N E L E I G H :
P H O T O B Y P A U L S E P U YA ; M A R Y S A B B AT I N O : P H O T O C O U R T E S Y G A L E R I E L E L O N G .
Sunday, October 18, 2015
R ighting the Ba l a nc e
3:00 p.m. Welcome
Susan Fisher Sterling, NMWA director
3:15 p.m. Introduction
Maura Reilly, author, curator, critic and event co-organizer
3:30 p.m. The Issue
Jillian Steinhauer, senior editor, Hyperallergic, and Sarah Douglas, editor-in-chief,
ARTnews
4:00 p.m. The Market
Mary Sabbatino, vice president/partner, Galerie Lelong, NY, and Gabriela Palmieri,
Sotheby’s senior vice president and senior specialist for contemporary art
4:30 p.m. The Artist’s Voice
Ghada Amer, Micol Hebron, Simone Leigh and Guerrilla Girl Alma Thomas
5:15 p.m. What’s Beyoncé got to do with it?
Jamia Wilson, movement builder, feminist activist and storyteller
Closing Remarks
Lorie Mertes, NMWA director of public programs
6–8 p.m. Sunday Supper
Table talk and communal supper served family-style
Register at nmwa.org/events/fresh-talk-righting-balance.
Carrie Mae Weems
Can an artist
inspire
social
change?
Sunday, November 15, 2015, 5–6 p.m.
Sunday Supper, 6–8 p.m.
Over the past 30 years, artist and
activist Carrie Mae Weems has
developed a complex body of work
that has employed photographs,
text, audio, installation, and video
to investigate family relationships,
gender roles, and the histories of
racism, sexism, class, and political
systems. Weems discusses her belief
that the responsibility of an artist is
“to make art, beautiful and powerful,
that adds and reveals; to beautify
the mess of a messy world, to heal
the sick and feed the helpless; to
shout bravely from the roof-tops and
storm barricaded doors and voice the
specifics of our historic moment.”
P resenting sponsor
C arrie M ae W eems : P hoto courtesy the J ohn D .
& C atherine T. M ac A rthur F oundation
Change by Design
Register at nmwa.org/events/
fresh-talk-change-design
Can design be
genderless?
Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 7–8 p.m.
Catalyst, a cocktail hour with a topic
and a twist, 8–9:30 p.m.
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In conjunction with NMWA’s exhibition
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and
Design, Midcentury and Today on view Oct.
30, 2015–Feb. 28, 2016, Netherlandsbased designer Gabriel Ann Maher,
whose work is in the exhibition, and
Alice Rawsthorn, design critic for the
international edition of The New York Times,
participate in a conversation that considers
whether design culture has become less
misogynistic or felt any impact from recent
conversations about gender transition.
Change by Design
Can an artist use science
and technology to heal the
environment?
Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7–8 p.m.
Followed by Catalyst, a cocktail hour with a topic and a twist, 8–9:30 p.m.
Director of the Environmental Health Clinic at New York University Natalie
Jeremijenko, an artist and engineer, bridges the scientific and art worlds by
prescribing creative health solutions for the environment such as creating “singing”
bivalves that signal water quality and a pack of robot dogs that monitor pollution.
Jean Case, an engaged philanthropist, investor and pioneer in the world of interactive
technologies, is one of the guest speakers who will join Jeremijenko to discuss ideas
and strategies for advancing women’s innovations in technology. During the Catalyst
cocktail hour, D.C.’s technology and maker communities join the conversation.
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Change by Design
Can a bicycle
be an agent
of change?
Sunday, May 15, 2016, 3–8 p.m.
Film Screening at 3 p.m.
Sunday Supper 6–8 p.m.
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling.
I think it has done more to emancipate
women than anything else in the world.
It gives women a feeling of freedom
and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice
every time I see a woman ride by on a
wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled
womanhood.”—Susan B. Anthony
In celebration of bicycle month, NMWA
hosts a Suffragist Social Ride that
culminates in a picnic-style Sunday
Supper featuring conversations on
the role of the bicycle as an agent
of social change. The program also
includes a screening of Wadjda, 2013
a film directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
about a young girl who enters a Koran
recitation competition at her school in
the hopes of winning enough money to
buy her own bicycle.
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SUMMER & FALL 2016
UPCOMING FRESH TALK
PROGRAMS:
Change by Design: Women Behind the Lens
Where are all the Great Women Filmmakers?
Change by Design: Women Building Impact
Can architects build to better communities?
Change by Design: Fashion as a visual manifesto
Can you wear your politics on your sleeve?
Righting the Balance II
Can collectors and curators lead the way?
Admission
$25 for general admission
$15 for members, seniors, and students.
Includes museum admission and complimentary dinner or cocktails where noted.
Reservations required.
For more information, contact [email protected].
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Women, Arts, and Social
Change (WASC) is a bold
new platform composed of
programs highlighting the
power of women and the arts as
catalysts for change. Programs
convene women from a range
of disciplines—people whose
socially conscious ideas are
reshaping lives and economies,
engaging communities, and
empowering women. WASC
is a unique forum for leading
innovators and thought leaders
to engage audiences in creative
conversations on art, design,
gender, equity, the environment,
identity, education, health,
social and economic
opportunity, and more.
The National Museum of Women
in the Arts (NMWA) is the world’s
only major museum solely
dedicated to celebrating the
creative contributions of women.
The museum champions women
through the arts by collecting,
exhibiting, researching and
creating programs that advocate
for equity and shine a light on
excellence. NMWA highlights
remarkable women artists of
the past while also promoting
the best women artists working
today. The museum’s collection
includes over 4,700 works by
more than 1,000 women artists
from the 16th century to the
present, including Mary Cassatt,
Frida Kahlo, Alma Thomas, Lee
Krasner, Louise Bourgeois,
Chakaia Booker, and Nan Goldin.